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Investing in Decent Work for Domestic Workers

• October 7, 2022 - October 11, 2022
• Kingston, Jamaica

Your Toolkit on ILO Convention 189 The “Investing in Decent Work for Domestic Workers, Ratification and Implementation of C189 and...

Book Review: The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future

Released in 2020, the book “The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future” has been reviewed by...

Milestone Talks on Informal Employment

In their first direct engagement, informal worker representatives and officials of the CNDH’s Program of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

EPRI Global Webinar: Expanding Social Protection Coverage to the Informal Workforce

• July 14, 2022

The impacts of the pandemic have exposed the large-scale vulnerabilities faced by workers in the informal economy, including the lack of...

Why an Enforceable Protocol on Social Protection is Essential in Africa

The African Union recently adopted a Protocol on Social Protection, which is significant because it means that the African Union now has...

4 Ways Informal Workers Use Cooperatives

A delegation of workers at the recent ILC conference on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy noted the importance of optimizing...

SEWA Sangini Cooperative: Providing Child Care for Women Informal Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

The SEWA Sangini Cooperative provides child-care services for SEWA members – all women workers in informal employment – through 11 centres...

Transforming the traditional social contract: Reflections from “Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South”

• July 19, 2022
• Online

On July 19, 2022, WIEGO will launch the new volume, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South, where the editors and contributors...

MTE: Popular economy workers’ child-care facilities offer critical services during COVID-19 in Argentina

The Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos (MTE) – Excluded Workers Movement – in Argentina provides child-care services for its members,...

COVID-19 and Informal Work in 11 Cities – Executive Summary

The longitudinal multi-city study of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers finds that earnings are still far below their...